Man charged with daylight stabbing in Cork city centre

Gardaí at the scene of the incident on St Patrick's Street last week. Photo: Damian Coleman

A young man was arrested and charged with assault causing harm to another man arising out of the investigation of a daylight incident in Cork city centre last week where a man was allegedly stabbed in the head.

It was reported at the time that but for the intervention of gardaí the victim could have bled to death after being stabbed in the head during the attack on St Patrick’s Street near the front of the Savoy.